Tag: how to cook steak

Steak 101 – 5 steps to the beginner’s success

  1. If at first you don’t suceed, try again. I did!
  2. If you follow a winning recipe, try to make sure you leave experimenting for another day. I didn’t.
  3. You will need to let your pan heat up well before you grease it
  4. Whatever you do, make sure you ‘rest’ your steak
  5. If you fail the second, third, fourth or even fifth time…..don’t give up.

The complete steak meal

I always say this is why I love food – its ever forgiving nature.

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Steak Bling, Bling

Show me a man who doesn’t like sizzling steak, and I’ll tell him who he is….he may be vegetarian and not know it. No offense.

I like the idea of steak – a smoking hunk of beef on a warm plate – tasty, rested – heaven! I wasn’t raised on steak, a natural born steak eater and cooker, not.  Good, stewed beef – yes; de-skewered Suya (Nigerian version of Satés) - yes; in soups – for sure but as a slab for dinner – no, never.  

Yes we had BBQs too, thank you very much, but we ate our way through tons of marinated chicken, ram and goatmeat but never beef. Its not just our culture.

Almost ready to go 

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